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2005-08-11 Iraq-Jordan

Iraqi Arabs Flock to Kurdish North for Jobs, Safety

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Posted by Fred 2005-08-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 From a purely Western POV, this is not surprising. These people seek peace and sanity and a place to live and raise families without fear and the external controls of tribal Sheikhs or Islamofascist Mullahs - who cares the flavor. The negative is that they will likely do what all immigrants from Islam do: bring their stinking backward brutal barbaric baggage with them and eventually, blindly, try to replicate precisely what they fled from.

From an Arab / Muzzy POV this is quite remarkable. They are acting against both their indoctrination to serve these two external Masters and their fear of retribution, for they know better than we ever will how little is required to be branded apostates or traitors and that this is actually merely a ruse, a canard, by which the power brokers of their society wield their power.

Were all Iraqis daring enough to make the choice, it would certainly simplify things for us and the Iraqi forces - everyone who didn't flee would be either a hopeless tool or mindless jihadi - or their Masters. That defines target-rich.

Sadly, I'm coming to the conclusion that the Kurds are the only significant population group in Iraq worth our efforts, thus far. They should be our first concern and our lasting allies, supported to the hilt. They will do something, great things I'd wager, with their opportunity. It's gratifying, with the above warning kept in mind, to see the bravest non-fools amongst the Arabs grab a clue and emulate them.

Posted by .com 2005-08-11 06:11|| 2005-08-11 06:11|| Front Page Top

#2 What? Leaving the friendly confines of Boomland, Zarq and Tater, Inc.?

Posted by Captain America 2005-08-11 08:54|| 2005-08-11 08:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Next story: Kurds contract with Israelis to build concrete fence.

Posted by Captain America 2005-08-11 08:59|| 2005-08-11 08:59|| Front Page Top

#4 I heard alot of them are hanging out in the parking lot of the Kirkuk Home Depot.

Posted by Penguin 2005-08-11 10:46|| 2005-08-11 10:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Yahoo has an article about the southern Shia wanting their own little oil-rich kingdom out of the constitutional convention. I guess if the Kurds can 'federalize", they can too. Leaving the Sunni boomers in the middle, with no assets.

Better get the Israelis to buid two walls....

Posted by Bobby 2005-08-11 12:43|| 2005-08-11 12:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Actually, I think it's because the Kurds had a head start. The history of the Kurdish enclave is quite rocky, including a civil war between differing factions, before they finally kissed and made up.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al">Frozen Al 2005-08-11 15:15|| 2005-08-11 15:15|| Front Page Top

#7 Here ya go, Bobby - nothin' says it all quite like a visual, eh?

Posted by .com 2005-08-11 15:25|| 2005-08-11 15:25|| Front Page Top

#8 And a more detailed map showing the smaller fields indicates the central zone will have a dibble or two, maybe enough to sell some...

Posted by .com 2005-08-11 15:27|| 2005-08-11 15:27|| Front Page Top

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